Smurfs: The Lost Village

Smurfette (voiced by Demi Lovato) goes questing for her place in Smurf life; her search leads her and friends Hefty (Joe Manganiello), Clumsy (Jack McBrayer) and Brainy (Danny Pudi) to a hidden village populated entirely by she-Smurfs, presided over by Smurfwillow (Julia Roberts) as a female version of Papa Smurf (Mandy Patinkin)—with the wizard Gargamel (Rainn Wilson) hot on their trail. When director Kelly Asbury and writers Stacy Harman and Pamela Ribon aren’t banging us over the head with their Girl Power message, this thing is harmless enough, even if sitting through it is like being force-fed 10 pounds of Gummi Bears. Fans of the franchise and small toddlers will be entertained—but if they were all that hard to please, these wretched little blue creatures would have gone extinct decades ago. J.L.